Next there was a site that generated Spotify playlists you could send people that would encourage them to buy you the device you wanted.

Finally there was a custom generated video site that allowed you to choose an adorable kid or a sassy grandma. You could add your custom elements to the video to convince someone to buy you one of the devices available at Verizon.

For the release of the new iPhone 8 Verizon was looking for interesting ways to become top of mind when shopping for the new phone. The concept we came up with was a SnapChat lens that could only be found in certain areas in the country. If the user was nearby they would be driven to our mobile experience via a Snap Ad. It would show a clue directing them to a general location, when they got there, they check the site again and there’d be a more specific clue. When they got to the right location the lens would be unlocked and they would snap it to us to win. We had a build a mobile experience with a lot of integrations with sports and weather apis to make sure the lens was available at the right time.

An ex-coworker of mine had an idea of organizing a big unfollowing of Donald Trump to make a statement. So with the help of another web developer we built http://www.unfollow-trump.com It didn’t really catch on but it got some attention in the press:

This was a project I was tech director on in the Spring/Summer of 2014. I wasn’t exactly sure when I was allowed to talk about but since you can now find it on Google I guess it’s OK.

The Dodgers hired us to revamp their entire trading process. We built them a room where they could discuss/argue/debate potential trades. There was a 5 x 3 HD display powered by a web application running at full resolution (9600 x 3240). There was also a desktop and iPad experience to control the information displayed on the big screen.

The development team did an amazing job, building a nodde.js backend which had to integrate with some 3rd party data sources. Also since a part of the front end was running at such a high resolution it had to be built in a way where it would scale up gracefully.

By the trade deadline last year the application was running great and looking amazing.

Here’s the a case study video we created, you can skip to 0:55 to see my beautiful mug:)

This site was inspired by a presentation I saw a few months back by Jocelyn Lai. She made a fantastic point about in this day and age you need to be “stalkable” . When someone tries to search for you in Google they should be able to see what you’re about. At the time I had my most social networking accounts set to private and there was no public place to find information about me. So now that’s changed.

Also it was fun doing things that I don’t normally get to do. Such as logo design, design the web PSD boards, HTML/CSS/JavaScript,and working on the WordPress platform.

A team at R/GA came to me with this awesome idea to allow anyone to do attention-grabbing advertising during the Super Bowl. I help them come up with a technical plan to do transparent video, did some quick prototyping then led a development team to launch it.

The challenge here was getting a transparent video to play over an iframe. At the end of the day it worked and everyone seemed to enjoy it.